I am taking a census on what the best pieces dollar for dollar are when starting off with the E6600. I could not think of a better way than to vote on piece by piece. We are all to keep in mind we are striving for maximum performance in this pc, Efficiency though is a close 2nd.

For the first step we start with deciding the best matching motherboard for this processor. Vote via comment with a short description of why you think your choice is best, or to disagree with a previous poster.

I will check in daily and will tally votes. After 1 week when the mother board is decided on i will put up a poll for the memory. I would start a pole but there are way to many mobos on the market.

Yeah, if you go to the evga website though, they just released a bios fix for the sata problem. I figure that by the time I order my stuff around the first week of january, all the boards they will be shipping will have the fix already with most of the kinks worked out. Guess we will see. There are also the Asus boards but I think they are having certain issues as well....